Heinrich Vieter
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Heinrich Vieter, SAC (13 February 1853, Selm – 7 November 1914, Jaunde) was a German Pallottine missionary to the German colony of Kamerun (today Cameroon).
Missionary work
Heinrich Vieter arrived in Douala with seven other members of the mission on 25 October 1890.[1] Over the next 13 years, Vieter led the Pallottines as they opened missions and schools across the territory.[2]
He befriended the young Ntsama Atangana at the mission school in Kribi; Atangana would later gift the Pallottines with land in Jaunde (Yaoundé) in Kamerun.[3]
When a Bulu leader Martin-Paul Samba was sentenced to death for treason against Germany in 1914, Vieter appealed for a stay, but his requests were ignored.[4]
Teaching
Vieter taught at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen (SOS; usually known in English as the Oriental Seminary) in Berlin sometime between 1909 and 1915, along with Hermann Nekes.[5][6]
Beatification
A process of beatification of Vieter was initiated by the Archbishop of Jaunde in early 2005, on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Cameroon.[citation needed]
